Richard S. Sutton
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| Born | Richard Stuart Sutton 1957 or 1958 (age 68–69) Ohio, U.S. |
| Citizenship | Canada since 2015, USA until 2017 |
| Education | Stanford University (BA) University of Massachusetts, Amherst (MS, PhD) |
| Known for | Temporal difference learning The Bitter Lesson |
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| Thesis | Temporal credit assignment in reinforcement learning (1984) |
| Doctoral advisor | Andrew Barto |
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| Website | richsutton |
Richard Stuart Sutton FRS FRSC (born 1957 or 1958) is a Canadian computer scientist. He is a professor of computing science at the University of Alberta, fellow & Chief Scientific Advisor at the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute, and a research scientist at Keen Technologies. Sutton is considered one of the founders of modern computational reinforcement learning. In particular, he contributed to temporal difference learning and policy gradient methods. He received the 2024 Turing Award with Andrew Barto.